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Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

news.ycombinator.com Kyrylo Silin 2025-09-29 02:02:31

The Great Pyramids took decades to build. It was a monumental feat of human ingenuity and collaboration. Today, we software developers erect our own pyramids each day - not from stone, but from code. Yet despite far more advanced tools, these systems don’t always make the experience better. So why, when KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, do we keep gravitating toward complexity? Marketing > Simplicity Sell me this pen: ✎ What? You don’t know how? Okay, instead, sell me this

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Ghost kitchens are dying

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 23:25:26

Ghost Kitchens Are Dying. Here's the $15 Billion Lesson Every Restaurateur Must Learn. A ghost kitchen stripped away everything you think makes a restaurant a restaurant. No dining room. No servers. No storefront. No customers walking through the door. Just a kitchen. Four walls. Commercial equipment. And a phone that never stops ringing with delivery orders. Ghost kitchens exist only in the digital world. Customers find them on DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. They order through an app. Food

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People Who Hunt Down Old TVs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 01:51:19

They are televisions from another era, replaced by the flat screen, high-resolution displays of the modern era. Yet cathode-ray tubes are still surprisingly in demand. The moment he saw pictures of the grubby old televisions for sale, Shaan Joshi knew he had to have them. Joshi, a game developer and writer from central Florida in the US, immediately paid up: $2,500 (£1,900) for 10 cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs. Chunky boxes with thick glass screens. Relics from another time. Wi-fi connectivity? Ap

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Britt Lower’s Emmy acceptance speech included a sneaky Severance easter egg [video]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-29 11:21:55

Actress Britt Lower took home one of the two statues awarded to Severance at the Emmy Awards last night, and her acceptance speech included a fun little easter egg. Or was it a cry for help from her innie? Watch it below. Severance didn’t win for Best Drama, but its cast got some well-deserved nods Last night at the Emmy Awards, Apple took home a total of 25 statues, most of which went to its hit comedy series The Studio. Severance, on the other hand, added two statues to the six it had alrea

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William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 10:28:01

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer The author Ray Bradbury is one of the early science fiction authors that moved science fiction into a literary form. As a writer Bradbury constructs beautifully written stories and novels. Bradbury's writing is in stark contrast to Bradbury as a speaker. The first time I heard Ray Bradbury speak was at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) yearly conference in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hearing Bradbury speak is an almost painful experience. The pictures

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Northrop Grumman’s new spacecraft is a real chonker

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 11:22:53

What happens when you use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch Northrop Grumman's Cygnus supply ship? A record-setting resupply mission to the International Space Station. The first flight of Northrop's upgraded Cygnus spacecraft, called Cygnus XL, is on its way to the international research lab after launching Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This mission, known as NG-23, is set to arrive at the ISS early Wednesday with 10,827 pounds (4,911 kilograms) of cargo to

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Apple Music import tool now available worldwide, with a few exceptions

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-29 15:51:10

Following a limited launch late last month, Apple has now officially rolled out its Apple Music import tool worldwide, making it easier for users who want to switch from Spotify and other music platforms. Here is how it works, and where it is (and isn’t) available. Apple began testing its Apple Music importing tool back in February, and following a limited release to users in Australia and New Zealand in May, it began rolling it out more widely last month to users in Brazil, Canada, France, Ger

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When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-09-25 20:28:15

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe? A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances. By: Richard Cytowic A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. My earliest lessons in observation came not from a laboratory but in the living room, with my father in his tuxedo and top hat. To everyone else, he was “Big Ed,” a larger-tha

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William Gibson Reads Neuromancer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 15:28:01

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer The author Ray Bradbury is one of the early science fiction authors that moved science fiction into a literary form. As a writer Bradbury constructs beautifully written stories and novels. Bradbury's writing is in stark contrast to Bradbury as a speaker. The first time I heard Ray Bradbury speak was at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) yearly conference in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hearing Bradbury speak is an almost painful experience. The pictures

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Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 15:04:04

The companies seeking to build larger AI models have been increasingly stymied by a lack of high-quality training data. As tech firms scour the web for more data to feed their models, they could increasingly rely on potentially sensitive user data. A team at Google Research is exploring new techniques to make the resulting large language models (LLMs) less likely to "memorize" any of that content. LLMs have non-deterministic outputs, meaning you can't exactly predict what they'll say. While the

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SmartGym app adds clever Apple Intelligence integrations, visual overhaul, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-29 19:05:19

For the past few years, SmartGym has been my copilot during every single gym session I’ve had. Now, thanks to iOS 26 and Apple’s Foundation Models framework, it has gotten even better and more useful. Here are the details. As with many app updates this week, SmartGym is now fully adapted to Apple’s Liquid Glass design, making it feel native to the new system right from the get-go. As SmartGym CEO explains it, he went beyond the standard Liquid Glass implementation guidelines, and further adopt

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GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

news.ycombinator.com Frank Heyen 2025-09-29 13:45:45

TVCG 2023 Tiffany Luong, Yi Fei Cheng, Max Moebus, Andreas Fender, Christian Holz Virtual Reality (VR) systems have traditionally required users to operate the user interface with controllers in mid-air. More recent VR systems, however, integrate cameras to track the headset's position inside the environment as well as the user's hands when possible. This allows users to directly interact with virtual content in mid-air just by reaching out, thus discarding the need for hand-held physical contr

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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

news.ycombinator.com Your Name 2025-09-29 16:46:01

React-by-default has hidden costs. Here's a case for making deliberate choices to select the right framework for the job. React Won by Default – And It’s Killing Frontend Innovation React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default. That default is now slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem. When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; e

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HBO Will Really Test How Much ‘Game of Thrones’ You Want Next Year

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-29 19:00:07

We did already know that Game of Thrones spin-offs A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon season three would arrive in 2026. But now we have more concrete details on when we’ll be heading back to Westeros—and the time between visits could be surprisingly short. As Deadline reports, HBO and HBO Max head Casey Bloys offered some morsels for George R.R. Martin fans as part of an interview celebrating the outlet’s many Emmy wins. (Hell yeah, The Penguin star Cristin Milioti!) Accor

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16 #562

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 19:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle stumped me, both in finding the answers and in unscrambling them. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you

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Save $40 on a Handmade Dutch Coffeemaker That's Built for Life

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-09-29 19:48:00

One of the most prestigious honors we award products is inclusion on our Buy It for Life gear roundup. This list represents products that WIRED writers have personally used for years, and as the name implies, they should last you for the rest of your life with proper care and warranty support. There's only one coffee maker on that list, the Moccamaster KBGV Select, and you can currently pick it up from Amazon for up to $40 off its list price, depending on the color. These drip coffee makers are

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Video of 'Meta Ray-Ban Display' glasses surfaces ahead of Connect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 23:47:13

Meta's smart glasses plans were already one of the worst kept secrets, as there have been more than a year of leaks and reports about its work to add a heads-up display to the product. Now, just days before their unveiling at Connect, a promotional video of the new frames seems to have leaked. The video, reported and reposted by UploadVR, shows the new "Meta Ray-Ban Display" frames as well as a new model of camera-enabled Oakley sunglasses. The clip mainly features the new Ray-Ban glasses, and

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Harvard's new free AI tool could help treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even cancer

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-29 23:04:00

Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Harvard researchers designed a new AI model, PDGrapher. It can identify treatments to restore diseased cells to health. This could have larger impacts on drug discovery. While AI's most common use cases involve helping people with their everyday tasks, it can also go far beyond that, even helping make medical breakthroughs. Also: Can AI outdiagnose doctors? Microsoft

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Looks Like Meta’s First Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Be Ray-Bans After All

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-29 23:26:37

We might only be days away from Meta’s next pair of smart glasses, but there’s still time for one last leak—and this one is a doozy. Meta’s smart glasses, which are expected to roll out this week during Meta’s Connect conference, will likely bear Ray-Ban branding after all, and we may have just gotten a very official look. An unlisted video spotted on Meta’s YouTube channel and first reported on by UploadVR seems to confirm a lot of what we expected about Meta’s next pair of smart glasses. The

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Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 11:22:22

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Researchers use laser light to form a tiny "optical pinhole" inside a nonlinear crystal, which also turns the infrared image into a visible image that a traditional silicon-based camera sensor can detect. With this setup, the researchers captured clear, wide-depth images without using any lenses, even in very low lig

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This Chip Will Power 2026's Best Android Phones. I Can't Wait to See What It Can Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 01:47:00

What do the Samsung Galaxy S25, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and the OnePlus 13 have in common, beyond simply being Android phones? The answer is that they're all powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which is the processor of choice for 2025's top Android flagship phones (other than those made by Google). The 8 Elite has performed well in our testing, but a successor is incoming. Next week at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm is set to unveil its latest, greatest chip, which it announc

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Turn Your Old Tech Into Art—Now With a 20% Discount

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-09-30 03:17:30

Nostalgic for beloved gadgets from your childhood? One easy and uncommon way to celebrate these gizmos is to frame them up on your wall. Grid Studios has been deconstructing old-school gadgets for 5 years now, and to celebrate its anniversary, the company is offering a 20 percent off sitewide discount with code GRID5, though the sale event ends September 17. Grid Studio Game Boy Advance $249 $199 (20% off) Grid Studios I've linked to the Nintendo Game Boy Advance version, the 2001 handheld tha

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Microsoft: Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in 30 days

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-30 07:04:05

Microsoft has reminded administrators again that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of extended support next month and has provided guidance for decommissioning outdated servers. According to the company's product lifecycle website, Exchange 2016 reached mainstream end date in October 2020, while Exchange 2019's mainstream support ended on January 9, 2024. Microsoft also reminded customers in January that Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 will reach the end of support in October.

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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'

news.ycombinator.com George Musser 2025-09-27 01:15:56

Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on his screen. They pulsed, grew and blossomed into monarch butterflies. As the two butterflies grew, they smashed into each other, and one got the worst of it; its wing withered away. But just as it seemed like a goner, the mutilated butterfly did a kind of backflip and grew a new wing like a salamander regrowing a lost leg. Mordvintsev, a research scientist at Google in Zurich, had not deliberately bred his virtual butterflies to regenerate

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This Chip Will Power 2026's Best Android Phones. I Can't Wait to See What it Can Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 06:47:43

What do the Samsung Galaxy S25, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and the OnePlus 13 have in common, beyond simply being Android phones? The answer is that they're all powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which is the processor of choice for 2025's top Android flagship phones (other than those made by Google). The 8 Elite has performed well in our testing, but a successor is incoming. Next week at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm is set to unveil its latest, greatest chip, which it announc

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Apple's Sleeper Hit of Its Fall Lineup? The Apple Watch SE 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 07:18:00

At Apple's September event, the new iPhone 17 models and AirPods Pro 3 took much of the attention, plus the super-thin iPhone Air and updated Apple Watch Ultra 3. But in this frugal girl's book, the real headliner was the one that snuck in as the real underdog of Apple's entire fall lineup: the Apple Watch SE 3. I usually overlook Apple's SE model because it lacks many of the powerhouse features of the flagship and Ultra editions, like an always-on display or temperature tracking. But this year

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Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Jordan Novet Chris Eudaily 2025-09-30 10:41:52

The U.S. and China have reached a "framework" deal for social media platform TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. "It's between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon," he said from U.S.-China talks in Madrid. Both President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Friday to discuss the terms. Trump also said in a Truth Social post Monday that a deal was reached "on a 'certain' company that young people in our Country very much wante

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Apple's Mac mini M4 is up to $110 off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 11:34:38

The Apple Mac mini M4 desktop computer is on sale via Amazon right now. This brings the price of the entry-level version, with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, down to $499. The model with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage is down to $689, which is a discount of $110. You can also pick up one with 24GB of RAM for $904. This is the model that came out at the tail-end of 2024 and represented the first major redesign of the product in ten years. We reviewed a version of this computer and called it

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Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 11:28:54

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house. What actually followed? I ended up reverse-engineering onboarding flows, decompiling an APK, MITMing TLS sessions, and writing cryptographic scripts. My main motivation for this project really stemmed from the fact that the camera annoyed me from day one. Setting the camera up in frigate was quite painful, no one really seemed to know how t

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The ‘Futurama’ Binge Season Is Stuffed With Sly Commentary and Sci-Fi Delights

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-30 11:00:16

Futurama’s new season is being called its 13th by Hulu, but the show, which premiered in 1999, has had a stop-and-start presence over the years across Fox, Comedy Central, and straight-to-video movies. The show’s latest season—its third on Hulu—is again treading new ground, getting an all-in-one binge release. One consistent element across Futurama’s discombobulated history has been its loyal fans, so it seems unlikely that dropping the entire season in one go will be a strike against it. Still

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Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

Ghost kitchens are dying

People Who Hunt Down Old TVs

Britt Lower’s Emmy acceptance speech included a sneaky Severance easter egg [video]

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)

Northrop Grumman’s new spacecraft is a real chonker

Apple Music import tool now available worldwide, with a few exceptions

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 16 #562

Save $40 on a Handmade Dutch Coffeemaker That's Built for Life

Video of 'Meta Ray-Ban Display' glasses surfaces ahead of Connect

Harvard's new free AI tool could help treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even cancer

Looks Like Meta’s First Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Be Ray-Bans After All

Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging

This Chip Will Power 2026's Best Android Phones. I Can't Wait to See What It Can Do

Turn Your Old Tech Into Art—Now With a 20% Discount

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Apple's Mac mini M4 is up to $110 off right now

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

The ‘Futurama’ Binge Season Is Stuffed With Sly Commentary and Sci-Fi Delights

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